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A former Toledo, Ohio firefighter and his son were arraigned Thursday for allegedly kidnapping a 13-year-old relative and keeping her chained up in a basement for as long as a year.

Timothy Ciboro, 53, and Esten Ciboro, 27, were charged with kidnapping and child endangerment and were being held on $500,000 bond apiece. A preliminary hearing was set for May 26. 

The girl told investigators she was shackled by the ankle to a support beam in the darkened basement as punishment for wetting her bed. She said she was punished in this way for different periods of time, and as long as a year, according to a court document.

The Toledo Blade reported that the girl managed to free herself with a spare key and escape the Ciboro house Wednesday night after the suspects went jogging in a nearby park. A police report said that a woman found the girl outside a downtown office building, carrying several bags and looking like a runaway. 

The teen told the woman that her mother had left her and her two siblings and gone to Las Vegas. She said her father had taken the children in.

The Ciboros were arrested early Thursday. Officers said it appeared the two men were trying to flee when they arrived at the house. Both were pulling away in a van with two younger children, a dog and cat, a map and a gun, according to a police report.

Officers found leg irons in the basement along with a bucket the girl said she used as a toilet, according to a police report.

The head of Lucas County Children Services said the girl was found with poor hygiene, but the two other children who also lived in the house appeared to be OK.

"They were not victims, to my knowledge," said Robin Reese, the agency's executive director.

The agency had contact with the girl in 2014, but she did not show signs of being malnourished or mistreated and was never removed from the home, she said.

The girl was home-schooled, Reese said. All three children were placed in foster care Thursday.

The Toledo Blade reported that Timothy Ciboro was fired from the city's fire department in 2004 after demanding a discount on ice cream for a friend at a local ice cream stand. 

"I remember him," city Fire Chief Luis Santiago told the paper, " and I remember him not being a very good employee."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Click for more from The Toledo Blade.

Jerry Boykin is the kind of man you’d want teaching your sons – a good and decent man, an honorable man – a Christian man.

For the past nine years the retired lieutenant general has taught leadership and ethics at Hampden-Sydney College, a highly regarded, all-male school based in Virginia. By many accounts – he is beloved and deeply respected by students.

Click here to join Todd’s American Dispatch: A must-read for conservatives!

But Gen. Boykin will not be retuing to the classroom this fall. That’s because he tells me he's been fired.

The man who was one of the original members of Delta Force and once commanded all of the U.S. Army’s Green Berets – the man who served his nation with honor and distinction for more than 36 years – was ousted because of political correctness.

Click here to subscribe to Todd’s weekly podcast! 

In March, Gen. Boykin delivered a speech to conservatives and he referenced the national uproar over transgendered people using the ladies room.

He cracked a joke: “The first man who goes into the restroom with my daughter will not have to worry about surgery.”

Laughter ensued.

But militant LGBT activists were not laughing.

“I never said homosexuals. I never said transgenders,” he told me. “I was really talking about these perverts who would use this as a way to get into the bathrooms with our wives and daughters.”

CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO TODD'S WEEKLY PODCAST!

Boykin, who also serves as an executive vice president of the Family Research Council, tells me as many as 150 activists signed a letter written to the college demanding that he be fired.

“They claimed I was calling for violence against transgenders,” he told me. “Obviously it is not true. It was a figure of speech. It was meant to be humorous and it was humorous to the audience.”

You’d think that militant LGBT activists would enjoy a good rib-tickler. Apparently, they do not.

“Political correctness is absolutely out of control,” he said.

Boykin leaed just recently that he would not be retuing to the college – without waing.

“I was not given a chance to defend myself,” he said. “I was not given an opportunity to explain myself. That’s the sad part of it. The school is better than that.”

Apparently, they are not.

Unlike the cowardly actions of the school’s leadership, I decided to allow the school’s administration a chance to do what they denied to Gen. Boykin – a chance to explain what happened.

“His contract was simply not renewed,” said Thomas Shomo, the college’s director of communications. “We felt it was time academically for a change.”

Shomo said Boykin worked part time – teaching two classes a semester -- serving in a position that had been set up years ago for short-term residencies for professionals in the Wilson Center for Leadership.

So did the college have conces about Gen. Boykin’s speech?

“Yes. They were of conce,” Shomo told me. “They appeared to advocate or approve of violence.”

But he denied the speech had anything to do with giving the boot to an American hero.

“The conces about Jerry Boykin’s Idea were not the determining factor in this decision,” Shomo said – noting that the timing of their decision was entirely coincidental.

I don’t know about you folks, but I feel like we’re knee-deep in Grade-A fertilizer.

“You know he [Boykin] is an outspoken person who has many controversial views,” Shomo said. “He has expressed those controversial views in various forms over the last nine years and the college has not reacted to those.”

Does the administration of Hampden-Sydney College truly believe that protecting women from would-be predators is a controversial view?

The general has many defenders – including former Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz.

“At a time where young people are desperately seeking hope and inspiration, you would think General Boykin would be one of their most valued faculty,” Sen. Cruz wrote on Facebook. “But instead, he fell victim to the PC police.”

FRC President Tony Perkins blasted the college’s leadership.

“What a contrast between the easily intimidated leadership of Hampden-Sydney College and men, like Gen. Boykin, who have spent their lives facing real danger so that LGBT agitators could enjoy the freedoms and rights they want to deny others,” Perkins told me.

Fred Larmore, a 1974 graduate of the college and a former board member, told me that students and alumni are furious over the decision to oust Boykin.

“General Boykin got an extremely raw deal,” he told me.

Hampden-Sydney was founded in 1776. They take great pride in their motto: “Come here as boys so you may leave as men.”

“General Boykin is the perfect example of how that happens,” Larmore told me. “He is a role model for the students. There’s no question that he’s the real deal.”

What happened to Gen. Boykin should serve as a wake-up call to every freedom-loving patriot across the fruited plain.

There is a concerted effort afoot to silence any American who cherishes traditional American values.

“They [LGBT activists] are shrewd, they are very well organized and they are unified – which is something the Church is not,” Boykin told me. “The Church is not unified. Therefore, the church fights piecemeal battles rather than doing what the LGBT community did in my case. They came together and launched a major attack and they succeeded.”

So the question at hand – my fellow Americans – is what are we going to do about it?

General Boykin plans on fighting back.

“It makes me even more determined that I’m going to do everything I can to stop men from going into bathrooms with my daughters, my wife and my granddaughters,” he said. “I am going to be a very outspoken antagonist on this issue.”

Spoken like a true American patriot.

As for Hampden-Sydney College – it seems as if their leadership places a higher value on political correctness than duty and honor.  

Todd Staes is host of Fox News & Commentary, heard on hundreds of radio stations. His latest book is "God Less America: Real Stories From the Front Lines of the Attack on Traditional Values." Follow Todd on Twitter@ToddStaes and find him on Facebook.

The Egyptian military said Friday that it had located wreckage from EgyptAir flight 804 in the Mediterranean Sea.

Egyptian army spokesman Brig. Gen. Mohammed Samir said in a statement posted on his Facebook page that Egyptian jets and naval vessels found "personal belongings of the passengers and parts of the plane debris," 180 miles north of the Egyptian port city of Alexandria.

Searchers had been looking at a wide area south of the Greek island of Crete for the Airbus A320, which was nearing the end of its scheduled flight from Paris to Cairo early Thursday when contact was lost.

Egyptian aviation officials believed that debris from the plane had been found Thursday, but were forced to retract that claim hours later after their Greek counterparts said the debris did not belong to the aircraft. 

If the debris found Friday is confirmed to be from the EgyptAir flight, searchers will tu their focus to recovering the cockpit voice and data recorders in an effort to determine the cause of the tragedy.

The Associated Press, citing Egyptian airport officials, reported Friday that three French and three British investigators and an AirBus technical expert have arrived in Cairo to join an investigation into the plane crash.

Authorities have said it is too early to definitively determine what happened to flight 804. Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said Thursday that the plane swerved wildly before plummeting into the sea.

The Egyptian military said that no distress call was received from the pilot. The country's aviation minister Sherif Fathy said the likelihood the plane was brought down by a terror attack is "higher than the possibility of a technical failure."

Earlier Friday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault told France-2 television there was "absolutely no indication" of what caused the crash, while the country's junior minister for transport, Alain Vidalies, added that ""no theory is favored" at this stage and urged "the greatest caution."

Elsewhere in Paris, French authorities scoured Charles de Gaulle Airport, the country's main hub, for any sign of a security breach prior to the flight's departure. Reuters reported that investigators were interviewing officers who were on duty at the airport Wednesday night to determine whether they heard or saw anything suspicious. 

"We are in the early stages here," a police source told Reuters about the investigation. 

The Wall Street Joual reported that French investigators were poring over surveillance footage from the airport, as well as performing background checks of those on board the plane and anyone who may have had ground access to the aircraft. 

France remains under a state of emergency after attacks by ISIS terrorists killed 130 people in Paris this past November and authorities are sensitive to the possibility of airport workers using their clearances to commit harm. 

The Joual reported Thursday that 85 French airport workers have had their security badges withdrawn or blocked because they are on govement watch lists for radicalism. Another 600 have lost their clearances due to criminal records.

On Friday, Vidalies defended security at Charles de Gaulle, saying staff badges are revoked if there is the slightest security doubt.

In the U.S., Los Angeles Inteational Airport announced Thursday that it was stepping up security in the wake of the EgyptAir disappearance. A statement from airport authorites said they were eliminating or restricting airport worker access to 150 doors in the terminals. The statement also said additional airport police officers had been assigned to monitor employee access points and conduct random screenings.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Jerry Boykin is the kind of man you’d want teaching your sons – a good and decent man, an honorable man – a Christian man.

For the past nine years the retired lieutenant general has taught leadership and ethics at Hampden-Sydney College, a highly regarded, all-male school based in Virginia. By many accounts – he is beloved and deeply respected by students.

Click here to join Todd’s American Dispatch: A must-read for conservatives!

But Gen. Boykin will not be retuing to the classroom this fall. That’s because he tells me he's been fired.

The man who was one of the original members of Delta Force and once commanded all of the U.S. Army’s Green Berets – the man who served his nation with honor and distinction for more than 36 years – was ousted because of political correctness.

Click here to subscribe to Todd’s weekly podcast! 

In March, Gen. Boykin delivered a speech to conservatives and he referenced the national uproar over transgendered people using the ladies room.

He cracked a joke: “The first man who goes into the restroom with my daughter will not have to worry about surgery.”

Laughter ensued.

But militant LGBT activists were not laughing.

“I never said homosexuals. I never said transgenders,” he told me. “I was really talking about these perverts who would use this as a way to get into the bathrooms with our wives and daughters.”

CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO TODD'S WEEKLY PODCAST!

Boykin, who also serves as an executive vice president of the Family Research Council, tells me as many as 150 activists signed a letter written to the college demanding that he be fired.

“They claimed I was calling for violence against transgenders,” he told me. “Obviously it is not true. It was a figure of speech. It was meant to be humorous and it was humorous to the audience.”

You’d think that militant LGBT activists would enjoy a good rib-tickler. Apparently, they do not.

“Political correctness is absolutely out of control,” he said.

Boykin leaed just recently that he would not be retuing to the college – without waing.

“I was not given a chance to defend myself,” he said. “I was not given an opportunity to explain myself. That’s the sad part of it. The school is better than that.”

Apparently, they are not.

Unlike the cowardly actions of the school’s leadership, I decided to allow the school’s administration a chance to do what they denied to Gen. Boykin – a chance to explain what happened.

“His contract was simply not renewed,” said Thomas Shomo, the college’s director of communications. “We felt it was time academically for a change.”

Shomo said Boykin worked part time – teaching two classes a semester -- serving in a position that had been set up years ago for short-term residencies for professionals in the Wilson Center for Leadership.

So did the college have conces about Gen. Boykin’s speech?

“Yes. They were of conce,” Shomo told me. “They appeared to advocate or approve of violence.”

But he denied the speech had anything to do with giving the boot to an American hero.

“The conces about Jerry Boykin’s Idea were not the determining factor in this decision,” Shomo said – noting that the timing of their decision was entirely coincidental.

I don’t know about you folks, but I feel like we’re knee-deep in Grade-A fertilizer.

“You know he [Boykin] is an outspoken person who has many controversial views,” Shomo said. “He has expressed those controversial views in various forms over the last nine years and the college has not reacted to those.”

Does the administration of Hampden-Sydney College truly believe that protecting women from would-be predators is a controversial view?

The general has many defenders – including former Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz.

“At a time where young people are desperately seeking hope and inspiration, you would think General Boykin would be one of their most valued faculty,” Sen. Cruz wrote on Facebook. “But instead, he fell victim to the PC police.”

FRC President Tony Perkins blasted the college’s leadership.

“What a contrast between the easily intimidated leadership of Hampden-Sydney College and men, like Gen. Boykin, who have spent their lives facing real danger so that LGBT agitators could enjoy the freedoms and rights they want to deny others,” Perkins told me.

Fred Larmore, a 1974 graduate of the college and a former board member, told me that students and alumni are furious over the decision to oust Boykin.

“General Boykin got an extremely raw deal,” he told me.

Hampden-Sydney was founded in 1776. They take great pride in their motto: “Come here as boys so you may leave as men.”

“General Boykin is the perfect example of how that happens,” Larmore told me. “He is a role model for the students. There’s no question that he’s the real deal.”

What happened to Gen. Boykin should serve as a wake-up call to every freedom-loving patriot across the fruited plain.

There is a concerted effort afoot to silence any American who cherishes traditional American values.

“They [LGBT activists] are shrewd, they are very well organized and they are unified – which is something the Church is not,” Boykin told me. “The Church is not unified. Therefore, the church fights piecemeal battles rather than doing what the LGBT community did in my case. They came together and launched a major attack and they succeeded.”

So the question at hand – my fellow Americans – is what are we going to do about it?

General Boykin plans on fighting back.

“It makes me even more determined that I’m going to do everything I can to stop men from going into bathrooms with my daughters, my wife and my granddaughters,” he said. “I am going to be a very outspoken antagonist on this issue.”

Spoken like a true American patriot.

As for Hampden-Sydney College – it seems as if their leadership places a higher value on political correctness than duty and honor.  

Todd Staes is host of Fox News & Commentary, heard on hundreds of radio stations. His latest book is "God Less America: Real Stories From the Front Lines of the Attack on Traditional Values." Follow Todd on Twitter@ToddStaes and find him on Facebook.

The Egyptian military said Friday that it had located wreckage from EgyptAir flight 804 in the Mediterranean Sea.

Egyptian army spokesman Brig. Gen. Mohammed Samir said in a statement posted on his Facebook page that Egyptian jets and naval vessels participating in the search for the plane found "personal belongings of the passengers and parts of the plane debris," 180 miles north of the Egyptian port city of Alexandria.

Searchers had been looking at a wide area south of the Greek island of Crete for the Airbus A320, which was nearing the end of its scheduled flight from Paris to Cairo early Thursday when contact was lost.

Egyptian aviation officials believed that debris from the plane had been found Thursday, but were forced to retract that claim hours later after their Greek counterparts said the debris did not belong to the aircraft. 

If the debris found Friday is confirmed to be from the EgyptAir flight, searchers will tu their focus to recovering the cockpit voice and data recorders in an effort to determine the cause of the tragedy.

The Associated Press, citing Egyptian airport officials, reported Friday that three French and three British investigators and an AirBus technical expert have arrived in Cairo to join an investigation into the plane crash.

Authorities have said it is too early to definitively determine what happened to flight 804. Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said Thursday that the plane swerved wildly before plummeting into the sea.

The Egyptian military said that no distress call was received from the pilot. The country's aviation minister Sherif Fathi said the likelihood the plane was brought down by a terror attack is "higher than the possibility of a technical failure."

Earlier Friday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault told France-2 television there was "absolutely no indication" of what caused the crash, while the country's junior minister for transport, Alain Vidalies, added that ""no theory is favored" at this stage and urged "the greatest caution."

Elsewhere in Paris, French authorities scoured Charles de Gaulle Airport, the country's main hub, for any sign of a security breach prior to the flight's departure. Reuters reported that investigators were interviewing officers who were on duty at the airport Wednesday night to determine wether they heard or saw anything suspicious. 

"We are in the early stages here," a police source told Retuers about the investigation. 

The Wall Street Joual reported that French investigators were poring over surveillance footage from the airport, as well as performing background checks of those on board the plane and anyone who may have had ground access to the aircraft. 

France remains under a state of emergency after attacks by ISIS terrorists killed 130 people in Paris this past November and authorities are sensitive to the possibility of airport workers using their clearances to commit harm. 

The Joual reported Thursday that 85 French airport workers have had their security badges withdrawn or blocked because they are on govement watch lists for radicalism. Another 600 have lost their clearances due to criminal records.

On Friday, Vidalies defended security at Charles de Gaulle, saying staff badges are revoked if there is the slightest security doubt.

In the U.S., Los Angeles Inteational Airport announced it was stepping up security in the wake of the EgyptAir disappearance. A statement from airport authorites said they were eliminating or restricting airport worker access to 150 doors in the terminals. The statement also said additional airport police officers had been assigned to monitor employee access points and conduct random screenings. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

A member of the Black Lives Matter movement who was active in the protests in Ferguson, Missouri was arrested and charged last month with human trafficking and prostitution, Fox 2 reported Thursday. 

According to court records obtained by the television station, Charles Wade, was arrested in April for allegedly hiring out a 17-year-old girl for sex in College Park, Maryland.

The operation was discovered by undercover agents.

The Daily Caller, which also obtained the arrest report, said Wade was charged with seven counts, including felonies for human trafficking. The charges carry sentences of up to 25 years in prison and a $15,000 fine.

Wade posted $25,000 bond and left jail on April 27, according to the Daily Caller.

Wade currently runs Operation Help or Hush, a non-profit created during the Ferguson protests. 

Last September he began crowd funding a center for children and youth near Ferguson, according to Fox 2.

He was included in a profile by The Washington Post of Black Lives Matter activists last year who protested the August 2014 shooting of Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.

Wade said in a statement on Twitter he was asked to help the woman, who claimed she was 20, to find an emergency shelter.

My statement. -CW pic.twitter.com/4sJocfmRvA

— He/Him/His (@akacharleswade) May 18, 2016

“Hindsight is 20/20 and in my desire to help her as she was displaced, I did not protect myself,” he wrote, “As I did not know her or her prior behavior other than substance abuse that I was told she had ‘kicked.’”

Click for more from Fox2Now.com.

Click for more from The Daily Caller.

Jerry Boykin is the kind of man you’d want teaching your sons – a good and decent man, an honorable man – a Christian man.

For the past nine years the retired lieutenant general has taught leadership and ethics at Hampden-Sydney College, a highly regarded, all-male school based in Virginia. By many accounts – he is beloved and deeply respected by students.

Click here to join Todd’s American Dispatch: A must-read for conservatives!

But Gen. Boykin will not be retuing to the classroom this fall. That’s because he tells me he's been fired.

The man who was one of the original members of Delta Force and once commanded all of the U.S. Army’s Green Berets – the man who served his nation with honor and distinction for more than 36 years – was ousted because of political correctness.

Click here to subscribe to Todd’s weekly podcast! 

In March, Gen. Boykin delivered a speech to conservatives and he referenced the national uproar over transgendered people using the ladies room.

He cracked a joke: “The first man who goes into the restroom with my daughter will not have to worry about surgery.”

Laughter ensued.

But militant LGBT activists were not laughing.

“I never said homosexuals. I never said transgenders,” he told me. “I was really talking about these perverts who would use this as a way to get into the bathrooms with our wives and daughters.”

CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO TODD'S WEEKLY PODCAST!

Boykin, who also serves as an executive vice president of the Family Research Council, tells me as many as 150 activists signed a letter written to the college demanding that he be fired.

“They claimed I was calling for violence against transgenders,” he told me. “Obviously it is not true. It was a figure of speech. It was meant to be humorous and it was humorous to the audience.”

You’d think that militant LGBT activists would enjoy a good rib-tickler. Apparently, they do not.

“Political correctness is absolutely out of control,” he said.

Boykin leaed just recently that he would not be retuing to the college – without waing.

“I was not given a chance to defend myself,” he said. “I was not given an opportunity to explain myself. That’s the sad part of it. The school is better than that.”

Apparently, they are not.

Unlike the cowardly actions of the school’s leadership, I decided to allow the school’s administration a chance to do what they denied to Gen. Boykin – a chance to explain what happened.

“His contract was simply not renewed,” said Thomas Shomo, the college’s director of communications. “We felt it was time academically for a change.”

Shomo said Boykin worked part time – teaching two classes a semester -- serving in a position that had been set up years ago for short-term residencies for professionals in the Wilson Center for Leadership.

So did the college have conces about Gen. Boykin’s speech?

“Yes. They were of conce,” Shomo told me. “They appeared to advocate or approve of violence.”

But he denied the speech had anything to do with giving the boot to an American hero.

“The conces about Jerry Boykin’s Idea were not the determining factor in this decision,” Shomo said – noting that the timing of their decision was entirely coincidental.

I don’t know about you folks, but I feel like we’re knee-deep in Grade-A fertilizer.

“You know he [Boykin] is an outspoken person who has many controversial views,” Shomo said. “He has expressed those controversial views in various forms over the last nine years and the college has not reacted to those.”

Does the administration of Hampden-Sydney College truly believe that protecting women from would-be predators is a controversial view?

The general has many defenders – including former Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz.

“At a time where young people are desperately seeking hope and inspiration, you would think General Boykin would be one of their most valued faculty,” Sen. Cruz wrote on Facebook. “But instead, he fell victim to the PC police.”

FRC President Tony Perkins blasted the college’s leadership.

“What a contrast between the easily intimidated leadership of Hampden-Sydney College and men, like Gen. Boykin, who have spent their lives facing real danger so that LGBT agitators could enjoy the freedoms and rights they want to deny others,” Perkins told me.

Fred Larmore, a 1974 graduate of the college and a former board member, told me that students and alumni are furious over the decision to oust Boykin.

“General Boykin got an extremely raw deal,” he told me.

Hampden-Sydney was founded in 1776. They take great pride in their motto: “Come here as boys so you may leave as men.”

“General Boykin is the perfect example of how that happens,” Larmore told me. “He is a role model for the students. There’s no question that he’s the real deal.”

What happened to Gen. Boykin should serve as a wake-up call to every freedom-loving patriot across the fruited plain.

There is a concerted effort afoot to silence any American who cherishes traditional American values.

“They [LGBT activists] are shrewd, they are very well organized and they are unified – which is something the Church is not,” Boykin told me. “The Church is not unified. Therefore, the church fights piecemeal battles rather than doing what the LGBT community did in my case. They came together and launched a major attack and they succeeded.”

So the question at hand – my fellow Americans – is what are we going to do about it?

General Boykin plans on fighting back.

“It makes me even more determined that I’m going to do everything I can to stop men from going into bathrooms with my daughters, my wife and my granddaughters,” he said. “I am going to be a very outspoken antagonist on this issue.”

Spoken like a true American patriot.

As for Hampden-Sydney College – it seems as if their leadership places a higher value on political correctness than duty and honor.  

Todd Staes is host of Fox News & Commentary, heard on hundreds of radio stations. His latest book is "God Less America: Real Stories From the Front Lines of the Attack on Traditional Values." Follow Todd on Twitter@ToddStaes and find him on Facebook.

A former Toledo, Ohio firefighter and his son were arraigned Thursday for allegedly kidnapping a 13-year-old relative and keeping her chained up in a basement for as long as a year.

Timothy Ciboro, 53, and Esten Ciboro, 27, were charged with kidnapping and child endangerment and were being held on $500,000 bond apiece. A preliminary hearing was set for May 26. 

The girl told investigators she was shackled by the ankle to a support beam in the darkened basement as punishment for wetting her bed. She said she was punished in this way for different periods of time, and as long as a year, according to a court document.

The Toledo Blade reported that the girl managed to free herself with a spare key and escape the Ciboro house Wednesday night after the suspects went jogging in a nearby park. A police report said that a woman found the girl outside a downtown office building, carrying several bags and looking like a runaway. 

The teen told the woman that her mother had left her and her two siblings and gone to Las Vegas. She said her father had taken the children in.

The Ciboros were arrested early Thursday. Officers said it appeared the two men were trying to flee when they arrived at the house. Both were pulling away in a van with two younger children, a dog and cat, a map and a gun, according to a police report.

Officers found leg irons in the basement along with a bucket the girl said she used as a toilet, according to a police report.

The head of Lucas County Children Services said the girl was found with poor hygiene, but the two other children who also lived in the house appeared to be OK.

"They were not victims, to my knowledge," said Robin Reese, the agency's executive director.

The agency had contact with the girl in 2014, but she did not show signs of being malnourished or mistreated and was never removed from the home, she said.

The girl was home-schooled, Reese said. All three children were placed in foster care Thursday.

The Toledo Blade reported that Timothy Ciboro was fired from the city's fire department in 2004 after demanding a discount on ice cream for a friend at a local ice cream stand. 

"I remember him," city Fire Chief Luis Santiago told the paper, " and I remember him not being a very good employee."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Click for more from The Toledo Blade.

Jerry Boykin is the kind of man you’d want teaching your sons – a good and decent man, an honorable man – a Christian man.

For the past nine years the retired lieutenant general has taught leadership and ethics at Hampden-Sydney College, a highly regarded, all-male school based in Virginia. By many accounts – he is beloved and deeply respected by students.

Click here to join Todd’s American Dispatch: A must-read for conservatives!

But Gen. Boykin will not be retuing to the classroom this fall. That’s because he tells me he's been fired.

The man who was one of the original members of Delta Force and once commanded all of the U.S. Army’s Green Berets – the man who served his nation with honor and distinction for more than 36 years – was ousted because of political correctness.

Click here to subscribe to Todd’s weekly podcast! 

In March, Gen. Boykin delivered a speech to conservatives and he referenced the national uproar over transgendered people using the ladies room.

He cracked a joke: “The first man who goes into the restroom with my daughter will not have to worry about surgery.”

Laughter ensued.

But militant LGBT activists were not laughing.

“I never said homosexuals. I never said transgenders,” he told me. “I was really talking about these perverts who would use this as a way to get into the bathrooms with our wives and daughters.”

CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO TODD'S WEEKLY PODCAST!

Boykin, who also serves as an executive vice president of the Family Research Council, tells me as many as 150 activists signed a letter written to the college demanding that he be fired.

“They claimed I was calling for violence against transgenders,” he told me. “Obviously it is not true. It was a figure of speech. It was meant to be humorous and it was humorous to the audience.”

You’d think that militant LGBT activists would enjoy a good rib-tickler. Apparently, they do not.

“Political correctness is absolutely out of control,” he said.

Boykin leaed just recently that he would not be retuing to the college – without waing.

“I was not given a chance to defend myself,” he said. “I was not given an opportunity to explain myself. That’s the sad part of it. The school is better than that.”

Apparently, they are not.

Unlike the cowardly actions of the school’s leadership, I decided to allow the school’s administration a chance to do what they denied to Gen. Boykin – a chance to explain what happened.

“His contract was simply not renewed,” said Thomas Shomo, the college’s director of communications. “We felt it was time academically for a change.”

Shomo said Boykin worked part time – teaching two classes a semester -- serving in a position that had been set up years ago for short-term residencies for professionals in the Wilson Center for Leadership.

So did the college have conces about Gen. Boykin’s speech?

“Yes. They were of conce,” Shomo told me. “They appeared to advocate or approve of violence.”

But he denied the speech had anything to do with giving the boot to an American hero.

“The conces about Jerry Boykin’s Idea were not the determining factor in this decision,” Shomo said – noting that the timing of their decision was entirely coincidental.

I don’t know about you folks, but I feel like we’re knee-deep in Grade-A fertilizer.

“You know he [Boykin] is an outspoken person who has many controversial views,” Shomo said. “He has expressed those controversial views in various forms over the last nine years and the college has not reacted to those.”

Does the administration of Hampden-Sydney College truly believe that protecting women from would-be predators is a controversial view?

The general has many defenders – including former Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz.

“At a time where young people are desperately seeking hope and inspiration, you would think General Boykin would be one of their most valued faculty,” Sen. Cruz wrote on Facebook. “But instead, he fell victim to the PC police.”

FRC President Tony Perkins blasted the college’s leadership.

“What a contrast between the easily intimidated leadership of Hampden-Sydney College and men, like Gen. Boykin, who have spent their lives facing real danger so that LGBT agitators could enjoy the freedoms and rights they want to deny others,” Perkins told me.

Fred Larmore, a 1974 graduate of the college and a former board member, told me that students and alumni are furious over the decision to oust Boykin.

“General Boykin got an extremely raw deal,” he told me.

Hampden-Sydney was founded in 1776. They take great pride in their motto: “Come here as boys so you may leave as men.”

“General Boykin is the perfect example of how that happens,” Larmore told me. “He is a role model for the students. There’s no question that he’s the real deal.”

What happened to Gen. Boykin should serve as a wake-up call to every freedom-loving patriot across the fruited plain.

There is a concerted effort afoot to silence any American who cherishes traditional American values.

“They [LGBT activists] are shrewd, they are very well organized and they are unified – which is something the Church is not,” Boykin told me. “The Church is not unified. Therefore, the church fights piecemeal battles rather than doing what the LGBT community did in my case. They came together and launched a major attack and they succeeded.”

So the question at hand – my fellow Americans – is what are we going to do about it?

General Boykin plans on fighting back.

“It makes me even more determined that I’m going to do everything I can to stop men from going into bathrooms with my daughters, my wife and my granddaughters,” he said. “I am going to be a very outspoken antagonist on this issue.”

Spoken like a true American patriot.

As for Hampden-Sydney College – it seems as if their leadership places a higher value on political correctness than duty and honor.  

Todd Staes is host of Fox News & Commentary, heard on hundreds of radio stations. His latest book is "God Less America: Real Stories From the Front Lines of the Attack on Traditional Values." Follow Todd on Twitter@ToddStaes and find him on Facebook.

SAN FRANCISCO –  San Francisco's police chief resigned Thursday at the request of the mayor hours after an officer fatally shot a young black woman driving a stolen car -- the culmination of several racially charged incidents in the past year.

Pressure had been mounting for the resignation of Chief Greg Suhr since December, when five officers fatally shot a young black man carrying a knife. Since then, there have been protests, moves to reform the police department and a federal review of its protocol.

Mayor Ed Lee supported the chief in December and again in April after it was disclosed that three officers had exchanged racist text messages.

The texting scandal was the second to rock the department after it was disclosed that several officers had exchanged racist messages dating back to before Suhr was chief. But Suhr was criticized for moving too slowly to fire the offending officers, all of whom have retained their jobs because of the chief's failure to start disciplinary action when he first found out about the inappropriate.

Suhr could not be reached for comment Thursday.

Protesters demanding Suhr's resignation drowned out the mayor's second inaugural speech in January, and demonstrators forced the mayor to abandon a planned speech on Martin Luther King Jr. Day later that month.

Nonetheless, the mayor stood behind the chief, and the two announced a series of reforms aimed at reducing police shootings. The two also called in the U.S. Department of Justice to review the department's policy and procedures.

Suhr renewed his call for reform April 8 after an officer shot and killed a Latino homeless man who police said refused orders to drop a large knife.

But Suhr lost Lee's backing Thursday, after a patrol car prowling an industrial neighborhood for stolen vehicles came across a 27-year-old black woman sitting behind the wheel of a parked car.
Police said the car had been reported stolen.

Officers tued on the patrol car's lights and sounded its siren, and the woman to sped off in the stolen car. A few second later and about 100 feet away, the stolen car slammed into a parked utility truck.

The officers jumped out of the patrol car and raced to the wreckage, where the woman was revving the car in an effort to disengage the auto from the truck. Suhr said a witness reported that the officers opened the driver's door and began grabbing the woman in attempt to arrest her.

At that point, a sergeant fired one fatal round.

"This is exactly the kind of thing with all the reforms we are trying to prevent," Suhr said Thursday, less than two hours after the shooting and before he resigned.

The mayor said he asked for and received Suhr's resignation.

"The progress we've made has been meaningful, but it hasn't been fast enough," Lee said in a brief statement at City Hall. "Not for me, not for Greg."

Neither the police nor the San Francisco Medical Examiner has released the identity of the dead woman. She was shot in the same neighborhood where the five officers shot and killed Mario Woods, the 26-year-old black man carrying a knife.

Video of Woods' shooting circulated widely online and led to protests and calls for Suhr's resignation.

But at the time, the chief still enjoyed the backing of the mayor and other community leaders, who said they wanted to give Suhr time to implement the reforms he promised.

"Some of the reforms underway might have prevented or clarified today's incident," the mayor said Thursday. "We need to tu these plans into actions."

Lee appointed Suhr chief in 2011. He was a 34-year veteran of the department who rose through the ranks despite several professional missteps.

He was demoted from deputy chief to captain in 2009 after failing to file a police report after a female friend told him she had been assaulted by her boyfriend.

The city last year paid $725,000 to settle a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by a former department lawyer who recommended Suhr be fired for failing to report his friend's assault. When Suhr became chief, he fired the lawyer.

Suhr was also re-assigned from head of patrol in 2005 to guarding the city's water supply, which was widely viewed as a demotion.

Two years earlier, he was one of several officers indicted in the city's so-called "Fajitagate" for allegedly trying to cover up an investigation of three off-duty officers who had beaten up a waiter and took his bag of Mexican food. The indictment was tossed out.

On Thursday, the mayor appointed Deputy Chief Toney Chaplin as acting chief. He is a 26-year veteran of the department, and he's black.

"Toney Chaplin has the charisma, chemistry and courage to lead this department," said Rev. Amos Brown, the president of the San Francisco chapter of the NAACP.

Brown, like the mayor, had also supported Suhr throughout the department's turmoil. Brown said the problems with the department in particular and police in general "are bigger than one man."

The search for missing EgyptAir Flight 804 entered its second day Friday, with crews scouring the Mediterranean Sea for any sign of the plane that disappeared from the radar with 66 passengers and crew on board. 

Searchers were looking at a wide area south of the Greek island of Crete for the Airbus A320, which was nearing the end of its scheduled flight from Paris to Cairo early Thursday when contact was lost.

Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos says that the plane swerved wildly before plummeting into the sea.

"The plane carried out a 90-degree tu to the left and a 360-degree tu to the right, falling from 37,000 to 15,000 feet and the signal was lost at around 10,000 feet," Kammenos told a news conference Thursday.

More than 24 hours after the plane vanished, investigators had failed to recover any wreckage, while authorities on both sides of the Atlantic said it was too early to definitively say what caused the crash. On Friday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault told France-2 television there was "absolutely no indication" of the cause, while the country's junior minister for transport, Alain Vidalies, added that ""no theory is favored" at this stage and urged "the greatest caution."

On Thursday, Egyptian Minister of Aviation Sherif Fathy told reporters the likelihood the plane was brought down by a terror attack was "higher than the possibility of a technical failure."

Elsewhere in Paris, French authorities scoured Charles de Gaulle Airport, the country's main hub, for any sign of a security breach prior to the flight's departure. Reuters reported that investigators were interviewing officers who were on duty at the airport Wednesday night to determine wether they heard or saw anything suspicious. 

"We are in the early stages here," a police source told Retuers about the investigation. 

The Wall Street Joual reported that French investigators were poring over surveillance footage from the airport, as well as performing background checks of those on board the plane and anyone who may have had ground access to the aircraft. 

France remains under a state of emergency after attacks by ISIS terrorists killed 130 people in Paris this past November and authorities are sensitive to the possibility of airport workers using their clearances to commit harm. 

The Joual reported Thursday that 85 French airport workers have had their security badges withdrawn or blocked because they are on govement watch lists for radicalism. Another 600 have lost their clearances due to criminal records.

On Friday, Vidalies defended security at Charles de Gaulle, saying staff badges are revoked if there is the slightest security doubt.

In the U.S., Los Angeles Inteational Airport announced it was stepping up security in the wake of the EgyptAir disappearance. A statement from airport authorites said they were eliminating or restricting airport worker access to 150 doors in the terminals. The statement also said additional airport police officers had been assigned to monitor employee access points and conduct random screenings. 

On Thursday, a Department of Homeland Security official told Fox News that while there have been no additional security enhancements, the department's aviation security posture remain at a heightened alert since the bombing of a Metrojet Flight 928 over the Sinai Penninsula last October. A law enforcement official said there is currently no specific, credible threat targeting U.S. aviation.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

For Dolly Kyle, Hillary Clinton wasn’t just an “enabler” for her husband’s alleged sexual misconduct. 

“She was a co-conspirator,” she told FoxNews.com.

Kyle is a retired attoey in Little Rock who claims she carried on an affair with Bill Clinton for years, from 1974 to 1991. After presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump started tuing his fire on his expected general election opponent – calling Hillary Clinton an “enabler” for Bill and claiming “some of these women were destroyed” by the way she treated them – Kyle suggested the remarks were not that far off.

She claims the former first lady indeed tried to discredit her story years ago. And, while the Democratic presidential front-runner has dismissed Trump’s attacks as part of a well-wo ‘90s “playbook,” Kyle is far from the only woman – either romantically linked to Bill Clinton or behind accusations of sexual misconduct – to have described the former first lady’s actions toward them in this way. A review of the record tus up numerous instances where Hillary Clinton was accused of seeking to intimidate or discredit women from her husband’s past.

Juanita Broaddrick, who alleges former President Bill Clinton raped her in 1978, also called the former first lady an “enabler.” 

FoxNews.com asked Broaddrick about a story she’s told before – of an encounter with Hillary Clinton two weeks after the alleged incident in 1978, in which Clinton shook her hand and said she appreciates what Broaddrick does for Bill. Broaddrick has said as she tried to walk away, Hillary Clinton squeezed her hand and said, “Do you understand everything that you do?”

Broaddrick took this as a waing.

“She did not say ‘be quiet,’ but it was the tone of her voice,” Broaddrick told FoxNews.com. “The second time she said it, the way her smile faded – it scared me.”

Bill Clinton has denied Broaddrick’s claims. After the 1999 allegation, Clinton attoey David Kendall said: "Any allegation that the president assaulted Ms. Broaddrick more than 20 years ago is absolutely false. Beyond that we are not going to comment."

Bill Clinton also pushed back this week on Trump calling him an “abuser,” saying, “I think people are smart enough to figure this out without my help,” according to footage aired by CNN. Trump, though, openly cited the “rape” allegation on Wednesday, in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity.  

To be sure, both Clinton and Trump are seeing their personal lives come under harsh scrutiny. A New York Times piece on Sunday – for which reporters interviewed dozens of women who worked for, dated and interacted with Trump – claimed the billionaire had a history of “unwelcome romantic advances” and “unsettling workplace conduct.” Trump, though, noted that a key figure in the piece, a former girlfriend, subsequently accused the Times of taking her words out of context, as he tried to tu the focus back to the Clintons.

Why doesn't the failing @nytimes write the real story on the Clintons and women? The media is TOTALLY dishonest!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 15, 2016

In response, Hillary Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon told FoxNews.com the campaign does not plan to debate the 1990s.

"These are attempts by Donald Trump and his operatives to draw Hillary Clinton into decades-old allegations,” Fallon told FoxNews.com. “It is no surprise he is running his campaign from the gutter, but Hillary Clinton doesn’t care what he says about her. She will continue to call him out for his outrageous positions and divisive Idea.”

Broaddrick said she wasn’t interested in talking about the past either until she saw Hillary Clinton tweet that every survivor of sexual assault “deserves to be heard, believed, and supported.” Clinton was asked at a December town hall if that includes Broaddrick and others who have leveled accusations against Bill Clinton. The former secretary of state responded, “Well, I would say that everyone should be believed at first until they are disbelieved based on evidence.” 

So in January, Broaddrick re-emerged with her accusations and tweeted: 

I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attoey General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73....it never goes away.

— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) January 6, 2016

“I was staying to myself about this until she came out with that tweet, and I was flabbergasted,” Broaddrick told FoxNews.com.

Kyle also started speaking out after that statement, even writing a memoir titled, “Hillary the Other Woman.”

“I saw Hillary on TV making that statement about how women who have been raped and sexually assaulted should be believed. That was the last straw,” Kyle said.

Kyle also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel in the 1990s, and alleges that Clinton was involved in negative media leaks about her in order to discredit the novel as part of an effort to prevent its publication. “She specializes in telling lies and planting stories about women,” she said. 

Liberal commentator Bill Press believes dredging up old Bill Clinton sex scandals, too far in the past for some voters to even remember, will not harm Hillary Clinton in the presidential race.

“It’s seen as unfair. The wife shouldn’t have to pay for the sins of the husband,” Press told FoxNews.com. “If Trump were running against Bill, it would be one thing. But she was a wronged woman. In a sense, she was a victim because her husband was running around cheating on her. It’s very hard to dredge that up and make it an issue in 2016.”

That doesn’t mean the allegations will go away.

Trump ally Roger Stone started the Rape Accountability Project for Education PAC, or RAPE PAC, earlier this year to spend money reminding the public of Bill Clinton’s alleged misdeeds and the former first lady’s alleged role in retaliation against accusers. One of those accusers is Kathleen Willey, who reportedly will be a national spokeswoman for the PAC. 

Willey said the former president groped her in 1993. After Willey came forward with her allegation in a 1998 CBS “60 Minutes” interview, Hillary Clinton reportedly was involved in a decision to release letters from Willey in an attempt to discredit her. A federal judge found this violated the Privacy Act.

In a 2014 interview with Fox News, Willey said: “Hillary Clinton is the war on women. And I think that she needs to be exposed for all of the terror campaigns that she’s raised against women who were in the wrong place at the wrong time with her husband.”

Willey did not respond to inquiries for this story.

Dick Morris, a former adviser to Bill Clinton who later became a harsh critic, recalled that Hillary Clinton was adamantly opposed to her husband settling the sexual harassment case with Paula Jones. He also said in the early stages of the 1992 presidential run, she oversaw the “intimidating” of women from her husband’s past.

“Hillary oversaw the entire operation and charged … her top deputies and closest allies with implementing her instructions,” Morris told FoxNews.com.

Hillary Clinton reportedly was ready as well to take on Gennifer Flowers, with whom Bill Clinton had an affair. Author Gail Sheehy told NBC News in 1999 she was with Hillary Clinton at the time Flowers came forward. Sheehy recalled, “I said, 'What would you do if you had Gennifer Flowers in front of you?' And she says, 'If I had her on the stand I would crucify her.' She never said a word about Bill.” The interview was cited in a Flowers lawsuit against Clinton operatives.

And the papers of Hillary Clinton’s confidante Diane Blair, who died in 2000, say that Clinton referred to Monica Lewinsky, the White House inte with whom Bill Clinton infamously had an affair, as a “narcissistic loony toon.”

A member of the Black Lives Matter movement who was active in the protests in Ferguson, Missouri was arrested and charged last month with human trafficking and prostitution, Fox 2 reported Thursday. 

According to court records obtained by the television station, Charles Wade, was arrested in April for allegedly hiring out a 17-year-old girl for sex in College Park, Maryland.

The operation was discovered by undercover agents.

The Daily Caller, which also obtained the arrest report, said Wade was charged with seven counts, including felonies for human trafficking. The charges carry sentences of up to 25 years in prison and a $15,000 fine.

Wade posted $25,000 bond and left jail on April 27, according to the Daily Caller.

Wade currently runs Operation Help or Hush, a non-profit created during the Ferguson protests. 

Last September he began crowd funding a center for children and youth near Ferguson, according to Fox 2.

He was included in a profile by The Washington Post of Black Lives Matter activists last year who protested the August 2014 shooting of Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.

Wade said in a statement on Twitter he was asked to help the woman, who claimed she was 20, to find an emergency shelter.

My statement. -CW pic.twitter.com/4sJocfmRvA

— He/Him/His (@akacharleswade) May 18, 2016

“Hindsight is 20/20 and in my desire to help her as she was displaced, I did not protect myself,” he wrote, “As I did not know her or her prior behavior other than substance abuse that I was told she had ‘kicked.’”

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An intense search continued Thursday in the Mediterranean Sea off Greece for wreckage of an EgyptAir flight that went down earlier in the day with 66 people on board, as multiple U.S. officials told Fox News that no explosion was detected by infrared satellites in the vicinity of the crash area. 

There were conflicting reports throughout the day as to if any debris from the plane was spotted by search crews.

Officials from EgyptAir initially said debris from the plane was found off the Greek island of Karpathos. Athanassios Binis, head of Greece's Air Accident Investigation and Aviation Safety Board, later told state ERT TV that "an assessment of the finds showed that they do not belong to an aircraft," The Associated Press reported. Binis added that this has been confirmed by Egyptian authorities.

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Later in the day, Ahmed Adel, Vice President of EgyptAir, told CNN the debris found Thursday was not from Flight 804.

"We stand corrected on finding the wreckage because what we found was not parts of our plane," he said. Adel added the search for wreckage will continue on Friday.

 

Several U.S. officials told Fox News that spy satellites used to detect missile launches and explosions around the world did not detect an explosion in the area where the EgyptAir flight crashed.

Cairo-bound EgyptAir Flight 804 dropped from the sky hours after departing from Paris. The plane banked and spun sharply before plunging less than an hour before it was due to land in Cairo at 3:15 a.m. local time, according to aviation officials. Authorities have said terrorism was a more likely cause of the crash than technical failure.

Greek military officials said a Greek C-130 military transport plane is still participating in the search for debris from the EgyptAir jet, but a frigate initially sent to the area has been recalled.

A Greek military official told The Associated Press planes had earlier spotted debris 230 miles south-southeast of the island of Crete but still within the Egyptian air traffic control area. Two other floating objects, colored white and red, were spotted in the same area, Greek defense sources told Reuters.

Speaking from Cairo, Egyptian Minister of Aviation Sherif Fathy said the AirBus 320, which left Charles de Gaulle Airport at 11:09 p.m. local time Wednesday and was due in Cairo at 3:15 a.m., "vanished."

"I'm not excluding any theory," said Fathy, who responded to a reporter’s question by saying that the possibility of a terror attack as the cause of the crash is "stronger" than technical failure.

Greek officials say the plane banked and spun sharply just before dropping.

"The plane carried out a 90-degree tu to the left and a 360-degree tu to the right, falling from 37,000 to 15,000 feet and the signal was lost at around 10,000 feet," Greece’s Defense Minister Panos Kammenos told a news conference Thursday.

Greek air traffic controllers tried to make contact as the plane left Greek airspace, but the pilot did not respond, he said. They continued to try to reach the pilot until 2:29 a.m. Cairo time, when the plane disappeared from the radar 7 miles southeast of the island of Crete.

What is unknown about the plane's final moments in the air could be consistent with terrorism, David Learmount, a leading British air analyst, told Fox News.

"All this says is that the plane was destabilized . . . it doesn't say why," Learmount said.

Learmount said it is possible that a bomb or someone with a gun or knife entering the cockpit could de-stabilize a plane, but also pointed out that a mechanical or technical defect, as well as human error, could also de-stabilize the aircraft.

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Congressman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, told reporters Thursday he spoke with the head of the Transportation Security Administration.

McCaul added that there are indicators of an event similar to that in October when a Russian passenger plane was blown out of the sky over the Sinai Peninsula using a timed bomb. 

Sen. Diane Feinstein, top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters Thursday she hasn't been briefed on the EgyptAir crash but that there was "strong probability that the plane went down with an act of terror."

Flight 804 was carrying 56 passengers, including one child and two babies, three security staff and seven crew members, officials said. Fathy said identities would not be released until relatives could be contacted, but described those on board as including 15 French passengers, 30 Egyptians, one Briton, two Iraqis, one Kuwaiti, one Saudi, one Sudanese, one Chadian, one Portuguese, one Algerian and one Canadian.

Among passengers on missing EgyptAir Flight 804 was a student training at a French military school who was heading to his family home in Chad to mou his mother.

The protocol officer for Chad's embassy in Paris, Muhammed Allamine, said the man "was going to give condolences to his family." Allamine said the man, who wasn't identified, was a student at France's prestigious Saint-Cyr army academy.

Another passenger on the flight was an Egyptian man retuing home after medical treatment in France, according to two shocked friends who tued up at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport.

"It breaks my heart," said one friend, Madji Samaan.

Kuwait's Foreign Ministry identified a Kuwaiti feared dead in the crash as Abdulmohsen al-Muteiri, but offered no other details.  

In Paris, relatives started arriving at De Gaulle Airport outside the French capital.A man and a woman, identified by airport staff as relatives of passengers, sat at an information desk near the EgyptAir counter.

The woman sobbed, holding her face in a handkerchief. The pair were led away by police.

Officials offered conflicting reports of an emergency beacon being picked up two hours after the plane had dropped off from radar. The Egyptian military said that no such distress call was received, but didn’t specify whether they were confirming an initial report or dismissing an EgyptAir statement.

Defense officials told Fox News Thursday that the U.S. Navy is flying P-3 reconnaissance aircraft to assist in the search effort.

Another U.S. govement official said Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has been briefed at least twice on the missing plane, and that at this early stage, everything is on the table as the govement is “tied in tight” with French and Egyptian investigators.

The White House also said in a statement that President Obama has been briefed on the crash.

Greece's defense minister, Panos Kammenos, said Greece has a submarine on standby which is participating in a NATO exercise about 100 miles away from the presumed crash area, while F-16 fighter jets stationed on Crete could also be used if necessary. The country already has a navy frigate, two military transport planes and a radar plane participating in the search operation, while he said Egypt had sent a C-130 military transport plane and two F-16s.

Hollande and French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault offered to send military planes and boats to join the search for wreckage.

"We are at the disposition of the Egyptian authorities with our military capacities, with our planes, our boats to help in the search for this plane," Ayrault said. He spoke as Hollande held an emergency meeting at the Elysee Palace.

Later, the French military said a Falcon surveillance jet monitoring the Mediterranean for migrants had been diverted to help search for the EgyptAir plane. Military spokesman Col. Gilles Jaron told The Associated Press that the jet is joining the Egypt-led search effort, and the French Navy may send another plane and a ship to the zone.

Hours after the plane disappeared on Thursday, Fathy told reporters in Cairo that the diameter of the search area will widen, moving further south of the island of Karpathos.

Hollande spoke with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi on the phone earlier Thursday and agreed to "closely cooperate to establish as soon as possible the circumstances" in which the EgyptAir flight disappeared, according to a statement issued in Paris.

In Cairo, el-Sissi convened an emergency meeting of the National Security Council, the country's highest security body. The council includes the prime minister and the defense, foreign and interior ministers, in addition to the chiefs of the intelligence agencies.

The Airbus A320 is a widely used twin-engine, single-aisle plane that operates on short and medium-haul routes. Nearly 4,000 A320s are currently in use around the world. The versions EgyptAir operates are equipped to carry 145 passengers.

The French Prosecutor’s Office said they will launch an investigation into the EgyptAir crash. The country remains under a state of emergency after terror attacks by the Islamic State killed 130 people in November.

The Associated Press reported that around 15 family members of passengers on board the missing flight had arrived at Cairo airport Thursday moing. Airport authorities brought doctors to the scene after several distressed family members collapsed.

The incident renewed security conces months after a Russian passenger plane was blown out of the sky over the Sinai Peninsula. The Russian plane crashed in Sinai on Oct. 31, killing all 224 people on board. Moscow said it was brought down by an explosive device, and a local branch of ISIS has claimed responsibility for planting it.

In 1999, EgyptAir Flight 1990 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near the Massachusetts island of Nantucket, killing all 217 people aboard. U.S. investigators filed a final report that concluded its co-pilot switched off the autopilot and pointed the Boeing 767 downward. But Egyptian officials rejected the notion of suicide altogether, insisting some mechanical reason caused the crash.

In March, an EgyptAir plane was hijacked and diverted to Cyprus. A man who admitted to the hijacking and was described by Cypriot authorities as "psychologically unstable" is in custody.

Fox News' Greg Palkot, Lucas Tomlinson, Catherine Herridge and The Associated Press contributed to this report

An intense search continued Thursday in the Mediterranean Sea off Greece for wreckage of an EgyptAir flight that went down earlier in the day with 66 people on board, as multiple U.S. officials told Fox News that no explosion was detected by infrared satellites in the vicinity of the crash area. 

There were conflicting reports throughout the day as to if any debris from the plane was spotted by search crews.

Officials from EgyptAir initially said debris from the plane was found off the Greek island of Karpathos. Athanassios Binis, head of Greece's Air Accident Investigation and Aviation Safety Board, later told state ERT TV that "an assessment of the finds showed that they do not belong to an aircraft," The Associated Press reported. Binis added that this has been confirmed by Egyptian authorities.

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Later in the day, Ahmed Adel, Vice President of EgyptAir, told CNN the debris found Thursday was not from Flight 804.

"We stand corrected on finding the wreckage because what we found was not parts of our plane," he said. Adel added the search for wreckage will continue on Friday.

 

Several U.S. officials told Fox News that spy satellites used to detect missile launches and explosions around the world did not detect an explosion in the area where the EgyptAir flight crashed.

Cairo-bound EgyptAir Flight 804 dropped from the sky hours after departing from Paris. The plane banked and spun sharply before plunging less than an hour before it was due to land in Cairo at 3:15 a.m. local time, according to aviation officials. Authorities have said terrorism was a more likely cause of the crash than technical failure.

Greek military officials said a Greek C-130 military transport plane is still participating in the search for debris from the EgyptAir jet, but a frigate initially sent to the area has been recalled.

A Greek military official told The Associated Press planes had earlier spotted debris 230 miles south-southeast of the island of Crete but still within the Egyptian air traffic control area. Two other floating objects, colored white and red, were spotted in the same area, Greek defense sources told Reuters.

Speaking from Cairo, Egyptian Minister of Aviation Sherif Fathy said the AirBus 320, which left Charles de Gaulle Airport at 11:09 p.m. local time Wednesday and was due in Cairo at 3:15 a.m., "vanished."

"I'm not excluding any theory," said Fathy, who responded to a reporter’s question by saying that the possibility of a terror attack as the cause of the crash is "stronger" than technical failure.

Greek officials say the plane banked and spun sharply just before dropping.

"The plane carried out a 90-degree tu to the left and a 360-degree tu to the right, falling from 37,000 to 15,000 feet and the signal was lost at around 10,000 feet," Greece’s Defense Minister Panos Kammenos told a news conference Thursday.

Greek air traffic controllers tried to make contact as the plane left Greek airspace, but the pilot did not respond, he said. They continued to try to reach the pilot until 2:29 a.m. Cairo time, when the plane disappeared from the radar 7 miles southeast of the island of Crete.

What is unknown about the plane's final moments in the air could be consistent with terrorism, David Learmount, a leading British air analyst, told Fox News.

"All this says is that the plane was destabilized . . . it doesn't say why," Learmount said.

Learmount said it is possible that a bomb or someone with a gun or knife entering the cockpit could de-stabilize a plane, but also pointed out that a mechanical or technical defect, as well as human error, could also de-stabilize the aircraft.

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Congressman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, told reporters Thursday he spoke with the head of the Transportation Security Administration.

McCaul added that there are indicators of an event similar to that in October when a Russian passenger plane was blown out of the sky over the Sinai Peninsula using a timed bomb. 

Sen. Diane Feinstein, top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters Thursday she hasn't been briefed on the EgyptAir crash but that there was "strong probability that the plane went down with an act of terror."

Flight 804 was carrying 56 passengers, including one child and two babies, three security staff and seven crew members, officials said. Fathy said identities would not be released until relatives could be contacted, but described those on board as including 15 French passengers, 30 Egyptians, one Briton, two Iraqis, one Kuwaiti, one Saudi, one Sudanese, one Chadian, one Portuguese, one Algerian and one Canadian.

Among passengers on missing EgyptAir Flight 804 was a student training at a French military school who was heading to his family home in Chad to mou his mother.

The protocol officer for Chad's embassy in Paris, Muhammed Allamine, said the man "was going to give condolences to his family." Allamine said the man, who wasn't identified, was a student at France's prestigious Saint-Cyr army academy.

Another passenger on the flight was an Egyptian man retuing home after medical treatment in France, according to two shocked friends who tued up at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport.

"It breaks my heart," said one friend, Madji Samaan.

Kuwait's Foreign Ministry identified a Kuwaiti feared dead in the crash as Abdulmohsen al-Muteiri, but offered no other details.  

In Paris, relatives started arriving at De Gaulle Airport outside the French capital.A man and a woman, identified by airport staff as relatives of passengers, sat at an information desk near the EgyptAir counter.

The woman sobbed, holding her face in a handkerchief. The pair were led away by police.

Officials offered conflicting reports of an emergency beacon being picked up two hours after the plane had dropped off from radar. The Egyptian military said that no such distress call was received, but didn’t specify whether they were confirming an initial report or dismissing an EgyptAir statement.

Defense officials told Fox News Thursday that the U.S. Navy is flying P-3 reconnaissance aircraft to assist in the search effort.

Another U.S. govement official said Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has been briefed at least twice on the missing plane, and that at this early stage, everything is on the table as the govement is “tied in tight” with French and Egyptian investigators.

The White House also said in a statement that President Obama has been briefed on the crash.

Greece's defense minister, Panos Kammenos, said Greece has a submarine on standby which is participating in a NATO exercise about 100 miles away from the presumed crash area, while F-16 fighter jets stationed on Crete could also be used if necessary. The country already has a navy frigate, two military transport planes and a radar plane participating in the search operation, while he said Egypt had sent a C-130 military transport plane and two F-16s.

Hollande and French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault offered to send military planes and boats to join the search for wreckage.

"We are at the disposition of the Egyptian authorities with our military capacities, with our planes, our boats to help in the search for this plane," Ayrault said. He spoke as Hollande held an emergency meeting at the Elysee Palace.

Later, the French military said a Falcon surveillance jet monitoring the Mediterranean for migrants had been diverted to help search for the EgyptAir plane. Military spokesman Col. Gilles Jaron told The Associated Press that the jet is joining the Egypt-led search effort, and the French Navy may send another plane and a ship to the zone.

Hours after the plane disappeared on Thursday, Fathy told reporters in Cairo that the diameter of the search area will widen, moving further south of the island of Karpathos.

Hollande spoke with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi on the phone earlier Thursday and agreed to "closely cooperate to establish as soon as possible the circumstances" in which the EgyptAir flight disappeared, according to a statement issued in Paris.

In Cairo, el-Sissi convened an emergency meeting of the National Security Council, the country's highest security body. The council includes the prime minister and the defense, foreign and interior ministers, in addition to the chiefs of the intelligence agencies.

The Airbus A320 is a widely used twin-engine, single-aisle plane that operates on short and medium-haul routes. Nearly 4,000 A320s are currently in use around the world. The versions EgyptAir operates are equipped to carry 145 passengers.

The French Prosecutor’s Office said they will launch an investigation into the EgyptAir crash. The country remains under a state of emergency after terror attacks by the Islamic State killed 130 people in November.

The Associated Press reported that around 15 family members of passengers on board the missing flight had arrived at Cairo airport Thursday moing. Airport authorities brought doctors to the scene after several distressed family members collapsed.

The incident renewed security conces months after a Russian passenger plane was blown out of the sky over the Sinai Peninsula. The Russian plane crashed in Sinai on Oct. 31, killing all 224 people on board. Moscow said it was brought down by an explosive device, and a local branch of ISIS has claimed responsibility for planting it.

In 1999, EgyptAir Flight 1990 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near the Massachusetts island of Nantucket, killing all 217 people aboard. U.S. investigators filed a final report that concluded its co-pilot switched off the autopilot and pointed the Boeing 767 downward. But Egyptian officials rejected the notion of suicide altogether, insisting some mechanical reason caused the crash.

In March, an EgyptAir plane was hijacked and diverted to Cyprus. A man who admitted to the hijacking and was described by Cypriot authorities as "psychologically unstable" is in custody.

Fox News' Greg Palkot, Lucas Tomlinson, Catherine Herridge and The Associated Press contributed to this report

For Dolly Kyle, Hillary Clinton wasn’t just an “enabler” for her husband’s alleged sexual misconduct. 

“She was a co-conspirator,” she told FoxNews.com.

Kyle is a retired attoey in Little Rock who claims she carried on an affair with Bill Clinton for years, from 1974 to 1991. After presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump started tuing his fire on his expected general election opponent – calling Hillary Clinton an “enabler” for Bill and claiming “some of these women were destroyed” by the way she treated them – Kyle suggested the remarks were not that far off.

She claims the former first lady indeed tried to discredit her story years ago. And, while the Democratic presidential front-runner has dismissed Trump’s attacks as part of a well-wo ‘90s “playbook,” Kyle is far from the only woman – either romantically linked to Bill Clinton or behind accusations of sexual misconduct – to have described the former first lady’s actions toward them in this way. A review of the record tus up numerous instances where Hillary Clinton was accused of seeking to intimidate or discredit women from her husband’s past.

Juanita Broaddrick, who alleges former President Bill Clinton raped her in 1978, also called the former first lady an “enabler.” 

FoxNews.com asked Broaddrick about a story she’s told before – of an encounter with Hillary Clinton two weeks after the alleged incident in 1978, in which Clinton shook her hand and said she appreciates what Broaddrick does for Bill. Broaddrick has said as she tried to walk away, Hillary Clinton squeezed her hand and said, “Do you understand everything that you do?”

Broaddrick took this as a waing.

“She did not say ‘be quiet,’ but it was the tone of her voice,” Broaddrick told FoxNews.com. “The second time she said it, the way her smile faded – it scared me.”

Bill Clinton has denied Broaddrick’s claims. After the 1999 allegation, Clinton attoey David Kendall said: "Any allegation that the president assaulted Ms. Broaddrick more than 20 years ago is absolutely false. Beyond that we are not going to comment."

Bill Clinton also pushed back this week on Trump calling him an “abuser,” saying, “I think people are smart enough to figure this out without my help,” according to footage aired by CNN. Trump, though, openly cited the “rape” allegation on Wednesday, in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity.  

To be sure, both Clinton and Trump are seeing their personal lives come under harsh scrutiny. A New York Times piece on Sunday – for which reporters interviewed dozens of women who worked for, dated and interacted with Trump – claimed the billionaire had a history of “unwelcome romantic advances” and “unsettling workplace conduct.” Trump, though, noted that a key figure in the piece, a former girlfriend, subsequently accused the Times of taking her words out of context, as he tried to tu the focus back to the Clintons.

Why doesn't the failing @nytimes write the real story on the Clintons and women? The media is TOTALLY dishonest!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 15, 2016

In response, Hillary Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon told FoxNews.com the campaign does not plan to debate the 1990s.

"These are attempts by Donald Trump and his operatives to draw Hillary Clinton into decades-old allegations,” Fallon told FoxNews.com. “It is no surprise he is running his campaign from the gutter, but Hillary Clinton doesn’t care what he says about her. She will continue to call him out for his outrageous positions and divisive Idea.”

Broaddrick said she wasn’t interested in talking about the past either until she saw Hillary Clinton tweet that every survivor of sexual assault “deserves to be heard, believed, and supported.” Clinton was asked at a December town hall if that includes Broaddrick and others who have leveled accusations against Bill Clinton. The former secretary of state responded, “Well, I would say that everyone should be believed at first until they are disbelieved based on evidence.” 

So in January, Broaddrick re-emerged with her accusations and tweeted: 

I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attoey General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73....it never goes away.

— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) January 6, 2016

“I was staying to myself about this until she came out with that tweet, and I was flabbergasted,” Broaddrick told FoxNews.com.

Kyle also started speaking out after that statement, even writing a memoir titled, “Hillary the Other Woman.”

“I saw Hillary on TV making that statement about how women who have been raped and sexually assaulted should be believed. That was the last straw,” Kyle said.

Kyle also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel in the 1990s, and alleges that Clinton was involved in negative media leaks about her in order to discredit the novel as part of an effort to prevent its publication. “She specializes in telling lies and planting stories about women,” she said. 

Liberal commentator Bill Press believes dredging up old Bill Clinton sex scandals, too far in the past for some voters to even remember, will not harm Hillary Clinton in the presidential race.

“It’s seen as unfair. The wife shouldn’t have to pay for the sins of the husband,” Press told FoxNews.com. “If Trump were running against Bill, it would be one thing. But she was a wronged woman. In a sense, she was a victim because her husband was running around cheating on her. It’s very hard to dredge that up and make it an issue in 2016.”

That doesn’t mean the allegations will go away.

Trump ally Roger Stone started the Rape Accountability Project for Education PAC, or RAPE PAC, earlier this year to spend money reminding the public of Bill Clinton’s alleged misdeeds and the former first lady’s alleged role in retaliation against accusers. One of those accusers is Kathleen Willey, who reportedly will be a national spokeswoman for the PAC. 

Willey said the former president groped her in 1993. After Willey came forward with her allegation in a 1998 CBS “60 Minutes” interview, Hillary Clinton reportedly was involved in a decision to release letters from Willey in an attempt to discredit her. A federal judge found this violated the Privacy Act.

In a 2014 interview with Fox News, Willey said: “Hillary Clinton is the war on women. And I think that she needs to be exposed for all of the terror campaigns that she’s raised against women who were in the wrong place at the wrong time with her husband.”

Willey did not respond to inquiries for this story.

Dick Morris, a former adviser to Bill Clinton who later became a harsh critic, recalled that Hillary Clinton was adamantly opposed to her husband settling the sexual harassment case with Paula Jones. He also said in the early stages of the 1992 presidential run, she oversaw the “intimidating” of women from her husband’s past.

“Hillary oversaw the entire operation and charged … her top deputies and closest allies with implementing her instructions,” Morris told FoxNews.com.

Hillary Clinton reportedly was ready as well to take on Gennifer Flowers, with whom Bill Clinton had an affair. Author Gail Sheehy told NBC News in 1999 she was with Hillary Clinton at the time Flowers came forward. Sheehy recalled, “I said, 'What would you do if you had Gennifer Flowers in front of you?' And she says, 'If I had her on the stand I would crucify her.' She never said a word about Bill.” The interview was cited in a Flowers lawsuit against Clinton operatives.

And the papers of Hillary Clinton’s confidante Diane Blair, who died in 2000, say that Clinton referred to Monica Lewinsky, the White House inte with whom Bill Clinton infamously had an affair, as a “narcissistic loony toon.”

More American voters trust Donald Trump to do a better job than Hillary Clinton on the issue most say will decide their vote this year:  the economy.  But, Clinton tops Trump in other key areas, including foreign policy -- and nuclear weapons. 

That’s according to a new Fox News national poll on top issues in the 2016 election. 

Relatively few voters, 26 percent, feel they’re better off now compared to before President Barack Obama took office. 

So it should be no surprise about four voters in 10 -- Democrats and Republicans alike -- say the economy will be the issue that decides their vote for president (39 percent). 

No other issue comes close.  Here’s how the others rank:  14 percent say national security will be most important in their vote, 10 percent each for education and health care, and 8 percent each for immigration and social issues such as abortion and gay marriage.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE POLL RESULTS

Voters trust Trump to do a better job on the top two.  He bests Clinton by 12 points on both the economy (53-41 percent) and terrorism (52-40 percent).

The poll, released Thursday, was conducted prior to news of an EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo crashing in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Meanwhile, Clinton has the edge on social issues (+12 points), education (+10), foreign policy (+10), health care (+3), and immigration (+2).

Trump is the candidate voters believe will do a better job “telling the truth to the American people” (+15 points), managing tax dollars (+14 points), and restoring trust in govement (+8 points). 

Trust of the candidates is about equal when it comes to using military force (Trump +1), nominating Supreme Court justices (Clinton +1), and “encouraging values you believe in” (Clinton +2). 

Immigration is a signature issue for Trump, but more voters not only trust Clinton to handle it, but she is also picked by a 35-point margin on “representing the views of Latinos.”

Nearly one in five (17 percent) says agreeing on immigration issues is a deal-breaker for them when deciding their vote for president.  That increases to 29 percent among Hispanic/Latino voters.

But who would voters trust with the nuclear codes?  That’s Clinton, by 11 points (49-38 percent). 

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Pollpourri

From the beginning of his campaign, Trump has said he would build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.  People believe him.  By a 54-42 percent margin, voters think Trump “truly will” build the wall.  By 50-44 percent, they believe he will forcibly deport illegal immigrants. 

Those who plan to vote for Trump (66 percent) are more likely than Clinton supporters (46 percent) to think he’ll build the wall.  At the same time, Trump voters (43 percent) are less likely than those backing Clinton (60 percent) to think he’ll forcibly deport illegal immigrants.

Overall, voters are more likely than not to believe Trump will nominate a conservative to the Supreme Court (65-22 percent) and ban non-U.S. Muslims (58-37 percent).

The Fox News poll is based on landline and cellphone interviews with 1,021 randomly chosen registered voters nationwide and was conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R) from May 14-17, 2016.  The poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points for all registered voters.

More American voters trust Donald Trump to do a better job than Hillary Clinton on the issue most say will decide their vote this year:  the economy.  But, Clinton tops Trump in other key areas, including foreign policy -- and nuclear weapons. 

That’s according to a new Fox News national poll on top issues in the 2016 election. 

Relatively few voters, 26 percent, feel they’re better off now compared to before President Barack Obama took office. 

So it should be no surprise about four voters in 10 -- Democrats and Republicans alike -- say the economy will be the issue that decides their vote for president (39 percent). 

No other issue comes close.  Here’s how the others rank:  14 percent say national security will be most important in their vote, 10 percent each for education and health care, and 8 percent each for immigration and social issues such as abortion and gay marriage.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE POLL RESULTS

Voters trust Trump to do a better job on the top two.  He bests Clinton by 12 points on both the economy (53-41 percent) and terrorism (52-40 percent).

The poll, released Thursday, was conducted prior to news of an EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo crashing in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Meanwhile, Clinton has the edge on social issues (+12 points), education (+10), foreign policy (+10), health care (+3), and immigration (+2).

Trump is the candidate voters believe will do a better job “telling the truth to the American people” (+15 points), managing tax dollars (+14 points), and restoring trust in govement (+8 points). 

Trust of the candidates is about equal when it comes to using military force (Trump +1), nominating Supreme Court justices (Clinton +1), and “encouraging values you believe in” (Clinton +2). 

Immigration is a signature issue for Trump, but more voters not only trust Clinton to handle it, but she is also picked by a 35-point margin on “representing the views of Latinos.”

Nearly one in five (17 percent) says agreeing on immigration issues is a deal-breaker for them when deciding their vote for president.  That increases to 29 percent among Hispanic/Latino voters.

But who would voters trust with the nuclear codes?  That’s Clinton, by 11 points (49-38 percent). 

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Pollpourri

From the beginning of his campaign, Trump has said he would build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.  People believe him.  By a 54-42 percent margin, voters think Trump “truly will” build the wall.  By 50-44 percent, they believe he will forcibly deport illegal immigrants. 

Those who plan to vote for Trump (66 percent) are more likely than Clinton supporters (46 percent) to think he’ll build the wall.  At the same time, Trump voters (43 percent) are less likely than those backing Clinton (60 percent) to think he’ll forcibly deport illegal immigrants.

Overall, voters are more likely than not to believe Trump will nominate a conservative to the Supreme Court (65-22 percent) and ban non-U.S. Muslims (58-37 percent).

The Fox News poll is based on landline and cellphone interviews with 1,021 randomly chosen registered voters nationwide and was conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R) from May 14-17, 2016.  The poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points for all registered voters.

For Dolly Kyle, Hillary Clinton wasn’t just an “enabler” for her husband’s alleged sexual misconduct. 

“She was a co-conspirator,” she told FoxNews.com.

Kyle is a retired attoey in Little Rock who claims she carried on an affair with Bill Clinton for years, from 1974 to 1991. After presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump started tuing his fire on his expected general election opponent – calling Hillary Clinton an “enabler” for Bill and claiming “some of these women were destroyed” by the way she treated them – Kyle suggested the remarks were not that far off.

She claims the former first lady indeed tried to discredit her story years ago. And, while the Democratic presidential front-runner has dismissed Trump’s attacks as part of a well-wo ‘90s “playbook,” Kyle is far from the only woman – either romantically linked to Bill Clinton or behind accusations of sexual misconduct – to have described the former first lady’s actions toward them in this way. A review of the record tus up numerous instances where Hillary Clinton was accused of seeking to intimidate or discredit women from her husband’s past.

Juanita Broaddrick, who alleges former President Bill Clinton raped her in 1978, also called the former first lady an “enabler.” 

FoxNews.com asked Broaddrick about a story she’s told before – of an encounter with Hillary Clinton two weeks after the alleged incident in 1978, in which Clinton shook her hand and said she appreciates what Broaddrick does for Bill. Broaddrick has said as she tried to walk away, Hillary Clinton squeezed her hand and said, “Do you understand everything that you do?”

Broaddrick took this as a waing.

“She did not say ‘be quiet,’ but it was the tone of her voice,” Broaddrick told FoxNews.com. “The second time she said it, the way her smile faded – it scared me.”

Bill Clinton has denied Broaddrick’s claims. After the 1999 allegation, Clinton attoey David Kendall said: "Any allegation that the president assaulted Ms. Broaddrick more than 20 years ago is absolutely false. Beyond that we are not going to comment."

Bill Clinton also pushed back this week on Trump calling him an “abuser,” saying, “I think people are smart enough to figure this out without my help,” according to footage aired by CNN. Trump, though, openly cited the “rape” allegation on Wednesday, in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity.  

To be sure, both Clinton and Trump are seeing their personal lives come under harsh scrutiny. A New York Times piece on Sunday – for which reporters interviewed dozens of women who worked for, dated and interacted with Trump – claimed the billionaire had a history of “unwelcome romantic advances” and “unsettling workplace conduct.” Trump, though, noted that a key figure in the piece, a former girlfriend, subsequently accused the Times of taking her words out of context, as he tried to tu the focus back to the Clintons.

Why doesn't the failing @nytimes write the real story on the Clintons and women? The media is TOTALLY dishonest!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 15, 2016

In response, Hillary Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon told FoxNews.com the campaign does not plan to debate the 1990s.

"These are attempts by Donald Trump and his operatives to draw Hillary Clinton into decades-old allegations,” Fallon told FoxNews.com. “It is no surprise he is running his campaign from the gutter, but Hillary Clinton doesn’t care what he says about her. She will continue to call him out for his outrageous positions and divisive Idea.”

Broaddrick said she wasn’t interested in talking about the past either until she saw Hillary Clinton tweet that every survivor of sexual assault “deserves to be heard, believed, and supported.” Clinton was asked at a December town hall if that includes Broaddrick and others who have leveled accusations against Bill Clinton. The former secretary of state responded, “Well, I would say that everyone should be believed at first until they are disbelieved based on evidence.” 

So in January, Broaddrick re-emerged with her accusations and tweeted: 

I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attoey General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73....it never goes away.

— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) January 6, 2016

“I was staying to myself about this until she came out with that tweet, and I was flabbergasted,” Broaddrick told FoxNews.com.

Kyle also started speaking out after that statement, even writing a memoir titled, “Hillary the Other Woman.”

“I saw Hillary on TV making that statement about how women who have been raped and sexually assaulted should be believed. That was the last straw,” Kyle said.

Kyle also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel in the 1990s, and alleges that Clinton was involved in negative media leaks about her in order to discredit the novel as part of an effort to prevent its publication. “She specializes in telling lies and planting stories about women,” she said. 

Liberal commentator Bill Press believes dredging up old Bill Clinton sex scandals, too far in the past for some voters to even remember, will not harm Hillary Clinton in the presidential race.

“It’s seen as unfair. The wife shouldn’t have to pay for the sins of the husband,” Press told FoxNews.com. “If Trump were running against Bill, it would be one thing. But she was a wronged woman. In a sense, she was a victim because her husband was running around cheating on her. It’s very hard to dredge that up and make it an issue in 2016.”

That doesn’t mean the allegations will go away.

Trump ally Roger Stone started the Rape Accountability Project for Education PAC, or RAPE PAC, earlier this year to spend money reminding the public of Bill Clinton’s alleged misdeeds and the former first lady’s alleged role in retaliation against accusers. One of those accusers is Kathleen Willey, who reportedly will be a national spokeswoman for the PAC. 

Willey said the former president groped her in 1993. After Willey came forward with her allegation in a 1998 CBS “60 Minutes” interview, Hillary Clinton reportedly was involved in a decision to release letters from Willey in an attempt to discredit her. A federal judge found this violated the Privacy Act.

In a 2014 interview with Fox News, Willey said: “Hillary Clinton is the war on women. And I think that she needs to be exposed for all of the terror campaigns that she’s raised against women who were in the wrong place at the wrong time with her husband.”

Willey did not respond to inquiries for this story.

Dick Morris, a former adviser to Bill Clinton who later became a harsh critic, recalled that Hillary Clinton was adamantly opposed to her husband settling the sexual harassment case with Paula Jones. He also said in the early stages of the 1992 presidential run, she oversaw the “intimidating” of women from her husband’s past.

“Hillary oversaw the entire operation and charged … her top deputies and closest allies with implementing her instructions,” Morris told FoxNews.com.

Hillary Clinton reportedly was ready as well to take on Gennifer Flowers, with whom Bill Clinton had an affair. Author Gail Sheehy told NBC News in 1999 she was with Hillary Clinton at the time Flowers came forward. Sheehy recalled, “I said, 'What would you do if you had Gennifer Flowers in front of you?' And she says, 'If I had her on the stand I would crucify her.' She never said a word about Bill.” The interview was cited in a Flowers lawsuit against Clinton operatives.

And the papers of Hillary Clinton’s confidante Diane Blair, who died in 2000, say that Clinton referred to Monica Lewinsky, the White House inte with whom Bill Clinton infamously had an affair, as a “narcissistic loony toon.”

Jerry Boykin is the kind of man you’d want teaching your sons – a good and decent man, an honorable man – a Christian man.

For the past nine years the retired lieutenant general has taught leadership and ethics at Hampden-Sydney College, a highly regarded, all-male school based in Virginia. By many accounts – he is beloved and deeply respected by students.

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But Gen. Boykin will not be retuing to the classroom this fall. That’s because he tells me he's been fired.

The man who was one of the original members of Delta Force and once commanded all of the U.S. Army’s Green Berets – the man who served his nation with honor and distinction for more than 36 years – was ousted because of political correctness.

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In March, Gen. Boykin delivered a speech to conservatives and he referenced the national uproar over transgendered people using the ladies room.

He cracked a joke: “The first man who goes into the restroom with my daughter will not have to worry about surgery.”

Laughter ensued.

But militant LGBT activists were not laughing.

“I never said homosexuals. I never said transgenders,” he told me. “I was really talking about these perverts who would use this as a way to get into the bathrooms with our wives and daughters.”

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Boykin, who also serves as an executive vice president of the Family Research Council, tells me as many as 150 activists signed a letter written to the college demanding that he be fired.

“They claimed I was calling for violence against transgenders,” he told me. “Obviously it is not true. It was a figure of speech. It was meant to be humorous and it was humorous to the audience.”

You’d think that militant LGBT activists would enjoy a good rib-tickler. Apparently, they do not.

“Political correctness is absolutely out of control,” he said.

Boykin leaed just recently that he would not be retuing to the college – without waing.

“I was not given a chance to defend myself,” he said. “I was not given an opportunity to explain myself. That’s the sad part of it. The school is better than that.”

Apparently, they are not.

Unlike the cowardly actions of the school’s leadership, I decided to allow the school’s administration a chance to do what they denied to Gen. Boykin – a chance to explain what happened.

“His contract was simply not renewed,” said Thomas Shomo, the college’s director of communications. “We felt it was time academically for a change.”

Shomo said Boykin worked part time – teaching two classes a semester -- serving in a position that had been set up years ago for short-term residencies for professionals in the Wilson Center for Leadership.

So did the college have conces about Gen. Boykin’s speech?

“Yes. They were of conce,” Shomo told me. “They appeared to advocate or approve of violence.”

But he denied the speech had anything to do with giving the boot to an American hero.

“The conces about Jerry Boykin’s Idea were not the determining factor in this decision,” Shomo said – noting that the timing of their decision was entirely coincidental.

I don’t know about you folks, but I feel like we’re knee-deep in Grade-A fertilizer.

“You know he [Boykin] is an outspoken person who has many controversial views,” Shomo said. “He has expressed those controversial views in various forms over the last nine years and the college has not reacted to those.”

Does the administration of Hampden-Sydney College truly believe that protecting women from would-be predators is a controversial view?

The general has many defenders – including former Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz.

“At a time where young people are desperately seeking hope and inspiration, you would think General Boykin would be one of their most valued faculty,” Sen. Cruz wrote on Facebook. “But instead, he fell victim to the PC police.”

FRC President Tony Perkins blasted the college’s leadership.

“What a contrast between the easily intimidated leadership of Hampden-Sydney College and men, like Gen. Boykin, who have spent their lives facing real danger so that LGBT agitators could enjoy the freedoms and rights they want to deny others,” Perkins told me.

Fred Larmore, a 1974 graduate of the college and a former board member, told me that students and alumni are furious over the decision to oust Boykin.

“General Boykin got an extremely raw deal,” he told me.

Hampden-Sydney was founded in 1776. They take great pride in their motto: “Come here as boys so you may leave as men.”

“General Boykin is the perfect example of how that happens,” Larmore told me. “He is a role model for the students. There’s no question that he’s the real deal.”

What happened to Gen. Boykin should serve as a wake-up call to every freedom-loving patriot across the fruited plain.

There is a concerted effort afoot to silence any American who cherishes traditional American values.

“They [LGBT activists] are shrewd, they are very well organized and they are unified – which is something the Church is not,” Boykin told me. “The Church is not unified. Therefore, the church fights piecemeal battles rather than doing what the LGBT community did in my case. They came together and launched a major attack and they succeeded.”

So the question at hand – my fellow Americans – is what are we going to do about it?

General Boykin plans on fighting back.

“It makes me even more determined that I’m going to do everything I can to stop men from going into bathrooms with my daughters, my wife and my granddaughters,” he said. “I am going to be a very outspoken antagonist on this issue.”

Spoken like a true American patriot.

As for Hampden-Sydney College – it seems as if their leadership places a higher value on political correctness than duty and honor.  

Todd Staes is host of Fox News & Commentary, heard on hundreds of radio stations. His latest book is "God Less America: Real Stories From the Front Lines of the Attack on Traditional Values." Follow Todd on Twitter@ToddStaes and find him on Facebook.